Example sentences of "[modal v] like [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation |
| 2 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 3 | So we should like to see an authoritative source of comparative APRs : both typical rates and the extremes of the range of rates , for different types of credit and ( where this makes a significant difference ) different types of purchase financed by the same type of credit . |
| 4 | I should like to put the contrary view that an understanding of theory is of primary importance because this provides a general perspective on the nature of language which influences pedagogic principles and indicates how different descriptions might be adapted for classroom use . |
| 5 | The meeting was successful , and I should like to highlight the key points . |
| 6 | In many ways I should like to do the same , for there are wonderful stories to be told , and I love storytelling . |
| 7 | I should like to suggest a few alternatives to the MICHAEL DOUGLAS , FUCK YOU , RACIST , SEXIST , ANTI-GAY school of sign-writing . |
| 8 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I should like to develop the next point . |
| 9 | As a cyclist myself , I should like to make a personal request : if you should find it necessary to use a tractor-mounted flail hedge trimmer to cut the hedges please could you ensure that the hawthorn clippings are swept up and removed and not left in the road as a danger to cyclists . |
| 10 | I do not intend to speak for hours , but I should like to make a few further comments . |
| 11 | To illustrate this point further I should like to make the following points . |
| 12 | In support of this request I should like to make the following points : |
| 13 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
| 14 | It will surprise nobody that I should like to redistribute the All England Club 's money for them but in so doing , give them more direct control over how it is used . |
| 15 | Returning to a more traditional style of presentation , and returning also to the question at issue in the light of the evidence presented above , I should like to offer the following conclusions : |
| 16 | An advertisement in the Afterwards Advertiser for ghosts who might like to join a haunting group . |
| 17 | I thought you might like to see the cheeky lodger I have . |
| 18 | Omi thought that you might like to see the old Adlon . |
| 19 | Not Tristan though , who might like to flirt a little and might not run too fast should he be himself pursued but who was certainly no beast of prey . |
| 20 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 21 | MEANWHILE , if you 're not actually strangling a turkey at the moment then you might like to do the next worse thing and plunge into the unsavoury giblets of the 1990 calendar of the National Association of Conservative Graduates . |
| 22 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 23 | We would be interested to hear from any other Hotels or Conferences in the Midlands who might like to discuss a similar project . |
| 24 | You might like to stay the same weight but change your shape . |
| 25 | Other interested observers of the business of South Coast berthing might like to read the first letter in defence of the Hamble River Boatbuilders and Marina Owners Association 's ( HRBMOA ) attempts to get the Hamble River Plan changed . |
| 26 | If you still have some money to spare after this , then you might like to consider the riskier investments . |
| 27 | In addition to deleting anything in bad or questionable taste , you might like to add a national , regional or personal dimension to a good joke . |
| 28 | Later , when we 're nearer completion , you might like to offer a free trip to the agents he recommends — get them to pass on the news to their customers . |
| 29 | If you regularly knit different garments for the same people , you might like to have a separate directory for each person . |
| 30 | ‘ I was thinking , ’ she began with caution , clearing her throat , ‘ that in time you might like to have a new daddy . ’ |